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Survival Kits for the Prepper on the Go

The pocket survival kit is a great everyday item for preppers. Light and compact, it is the ideal temporary substitute for your bug out bag or stow bag. If you find your bug out bag difficult or impractical to carry around, these smaller kits will do the trick and keep you prepared on a day to day basis.

Pocket Sized Survival Kits for Preppers on the Go

Obviously, the pocket sized kit cannot replace the contents of your bag. The contents of the mini kit should be limited to the most important items in case of emergency or when SHTF and you stashed your bug out bag somewhere else. Your choice of items is therefore critical, prompting you to think carefully about what should be included.

We have put together some ideas from YouTube as to what essentials you have to put in your own pocket survival kit. Whether it’s a sealed plastic sandwich bag or a tin can/Altoids tin that you want to use, what matters is that you choose the survival items that are important to you when things go wrong.

Silica Gel Pack – I save the ones that come with new products but you can purchase them also…

Silica Gel is a desiccant – and absorbs moisture from condensation and changes in humidity, so it will keep things bone dry in a small sealed container – like a quart sized zip lock bag. JOE’S SURVIVAL KIT

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Iam soooo tired of hearing this BS. How many of you have ACTUALLY USED DRYER LINT? Tried making a fire with your fire steel. I spent 4 hours on a Saturday playing with my dryer lint. MY dryer lint SUCKED at burning. Why? On examination I found it was mostly pet hair and synthetic fibers. Yes, it sort of burned, but not very well. If my life depended on it, I would have been in deep shit on a rainy damp day. If you don’t have any pets, and all your clothes are cotton, your dryer lint is fine…does that describe your dryer lint? Please QUIT RECOMMENDING DRYER LINT AS PERFECT FUCKING TINDER…IT ISN’T. Perfect tinder/fire starter is a cotton ball with vaseline in it. I use small pill bottles and stuff vaseline soaked cotton balls in them. THESE WORK, AND I HAVE TRIED THEM. Don’t take my word for it. TRY THEM…AND DRYER LINT…you’ll be surprised.

This is all incredably useful information , i seriously want it all. I keep a back pack ready with what seems like random items to my family, the drier lint really made me look crazy, but i’d love to have a comeplete kit and the free knife. I hope its still avalible by the time i cam afford it- i know the shipping only 5$ but still out of my budget at the moment. So if you ever have a drawing for totally free stuff, put my name in 100 times. And i totally support you on twitter!

Fishing equipment is useless if you are buy a river in less then ten minutes I can hand fish don’t know if it’s legal but fish have no never endings on the belly just slide up pinch at the head a least this works for trout they sit under rocks where the water swirls easy to catch why take all that time to set up a line and wait just go grab them. Lake is a different story but your going to need a 5-6 foot pole to cast out where the fish are. I’m in Utah this technique works but you will get wet and cold so start a fire use snow to dry off get warm and eat no waiting. Every survialist needs to perfect their skills in hand fishing just watch out for fish and game don’t know if it legal but if you need to survive then do it you won’t believe how easy and fast it is I could have 20 fish in a hour. People relying on item and not skills need to worry like if you find berries grab the branch if it pricks you eat it if you grab it and nothing happens don’t eat it. Simple skills should be one of your focus not just what can I carry. Might be different in your neck of the woods but here is my two cents contact me if you want more survial skills not just items rose hips have more vitamin C then a whole orange.just a thought

I bought the Bear Grylls Basic Survival kit and heavily modified it for my own needs. I carry it every single day 24/7 because you never know when you may need it. I attached a carabiner to the lanyard and keep it clipped to my belt with the kit in my pocket so there is no way I would lose it. My survival kit contains:

I would suggest putting a packing list facing out and in view to the packs. The assumption you both made is that you will be 100% cognizant or that a stranger coming on you will know what each item is used for. I would also label what each inner bag contains, if not a list of the items at least a title that is on the main packing list, i.e. “burn kit”, “fishing kit”, etc. this will save time and increase effectiveness in the use of the bag.

Okay guys, I really have to say something here. As a career USAF Special Ops SERER instructor, I used to argue with other instructors and commandos about what we should be teaching our operators to carry on their person in any environment. I eventually became a civilian SAR tech and instructor, and again, I had heated debates with the team members on the same subject. That is until we developed the FUNSAR course with the input of the military, the SAR community and the National Park Service. That’s when we finally started using a universal survival priority system; the Rule of 3s. Finally, we had a way for SAR teams, adventure sports participants, the military, etc., to judge what their biological needs would be, and what equipment/pocket items they should have on their person before setting out on their mission. Its really simple to figure out what to put in your survival kit; only those items you will require to meet your body’s needs, in order of priority. The generally accepted survival priorities are: your mind/spirit, circulation/respiration/viable health, body core warmth/shelter, security, water, defecation/urination, sleep, rescue, nourishment. So, if you equip yourself with at least minimal knowledge and equipment to meet those needs in that order, you should be able to keep yourself alive in most environments until you are found. Based on this kind of analysis, the kits discussed in your article have alot of unnecessary junk and many personal trinkets folks feel like taking with them in the bush. Fishing kits and snare materials are cool and fun, but if you don’t have sufficient amounts of materials to meet all the higher priority needs than food, you are setting yourself up for failure; i.e. death. We need to teach folks the information that will truly help them keep themselves alive till they can make it out of their predicament. I hope your readers search for teachers, instructors, schools, programs that adhere to some form of the Rule of 3s system. “First There, That Others May Live”

@Whiskey: Given your list: “your mind/spirit, circulation/respiration/viable health, body core warmth/shelter, security, water, defecation/urination, sleep, rescue, nourishment”. All of them except for security, water, rescue, and nourishment can be nominally provided with at most one physical tool need: a knife. (Typical kits include items that help some of the others in your list.) Best solution to security is to keep hidden; only thing to add beyond a knife would be a firearm, which is not going to fit in a pocket survival kit. Rescue is considered something to be avoided in most scenarios that survivalists are preparing for, and kits typically include a whistle and ways to make fires for signaling anyhow. That only leaves water and nourishment.

So, it seems to me that water is the only item in your list which is not sufficiently handled in many survival kits.

I believe that your suggestions are based on scenarios which are in some sense the opposite of what today’s survivalists are looking to prepare for. From a search and rescue perspective, you want the victims to protect themselves from the elements for a few hours or days and make themselves easy to find. The objective is to bring them back to civilization. Most survivalists are preparing to escape from civilization, not the opposite. So your list is missing a major need, which is travel. You don’t want the person you are trying to find to travel, as that makes it harder to find them, so it isn’t even in your list. And nourishment is almost irrelevant in your perspective, as an untrained person thrown into a wilderness situation is likely to die of something else before he dies of starvation.

So I don’t believe that the kits are as irrelevant, for their intended purpose, as you imply.

As for the rule of threes, that is an old American Indian rule that you want to have three relatively independent sources for each major survival need which is likely to be in short supply. At least some kits support this by providing three different ways to make a fire, and three ways to get food.

Ah, BillH, you have nailed a major discussion point that most survivalists (preppers) miss; the difference between wilderness survival, disaster survival, primitive living skills and bugging out in a SHTF scenario. Thus, when you want to to train someone on “survival kits”, you have to know the context that the kits will be used in. Also, if you expect to train most folks today in prepping E & E, and all you give them is a knife and a gun, 90% of them will be dead in a week in a real emergency scenario. Most of these people you are trying to train don’t have the warrior skills or mind set to use these two tools/weapons. If you give them only rudimentary training on a pocket survival kit of choice, then the same mortality rate will occur because they don’t have the woodland experience to use the items in the kit to keep themselves alive in the bush for more than a week. I’ve been training folks aged 4 to 80 in all of these skills for the last 50 years, both voluntarily and professionally. There’s some basic instructor principles you need to understand. You have to know your audience and you have to know what level of expertise your students want to be trained to. Not everyone wants to or is capable of becoming Daniel Boone. Best of luck with your knife and gun!

What a pompous ass. There are some of us that have been there and done that. Most people in the AF are pussies. SERE training in the other services is significantly harder than the USAF. I say that as a SMSGT with 38 yrs. I have been sheep dipped, screwed with, done contract work, and worked with ALL the services, and been shot at and shot back. Been in places we were never in. Never had to use SERE, BUT I’ve spent more time in places where the SERE was probably the better place to stay and safer. You are right about some kits. Fishing crap, if you aren’t bugging out is useless, BUT if you are bugging out you should have some. Not sure but I might be agreeing with you, but you come across as an asshole….just sayin. And I wouldn’t mention that Air Force thing, no one respects it. Every time I’m in a conversation that has to do with the military it goes like this; “yeah, you were in the military”, “yeah, I was in the air force OH”. “What?” “I was in the air force OH”. “What’s that?” “Well, if you’re in the Marines and you tell people you were, then they go Urahhhh! If you were in the Army and you say that, they go Hohaah, Rangers lead the way, death from above. If you say you’re in the Navy, people go ‘oh, my uncle was in the Navy, and he saw the world’. AND then if you say you’re in the Air Force, they go ‘OH’. ” The Air Force OH. I’m so fed up with that shit. And you do nothing to remediate it. You exacerbate it. I have my kits, and they have never failed me. Gun, knife, and stuff. I will survive, regardless of what you teach. If they aren’t smart enough to survive…oh well. I didn’t get the benefit of SERE school going to VietLaoBodia, I got fucking civilians and no ID card and NO dog tags cuz I volunteered to be a hero. THAT SUCKED. I learned to survive the hard way…by surviving with civilians that didn’t have my survival in mind. Anyway, lighten up. Contribute instead of bitch. Put a kit out there with some options and SHARE your experience instead of lord it over people. Be Well.

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